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Closely Watched Films : An Introduction to the Art of Narrative Film Technique /

How do films work? How do they tell a story? How do they move us and make us think? Through detailed examinations of passages from classic films, Marilyn Fabe supplies the analytic tools and background in film history and theory to enable us to see more in every film we watch. Ranging from D. W. Gri...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fabe, Marilyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Beginnings of Film Narrative: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation
  • 2 The Art of Montage: Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin
  • 3. Expressionism and Realism in Film Form: F.W. Murnau's The Last Laugh and Charles Chaplin's The Adventurer
  • 4. The Conversion to Sound and the Classical Hollywood Film: Howard Hawks's His Girl Friday
  • 5. Expressive Realism: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane
  • 6. Italian Neorealism: Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief
  • 7. Auteur Theory and the French New Wave: François Truffaut's The 400 Blows
  • 8. Hollywood Auteur: Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious
  • 9. The European Art Film: Federico Fellini's 8 1/2
  • 10. Film and Postmodernism: Woody Allen's Annie Hall
  • 11. Political Cinema: Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
  • 12. Feminism and Film Form: Patricia Rozema's I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
  • 13. Digital Video and New Forms of Narrative: Mike Figgis's Timecode and James Cameron's Avatar
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index